Sir John Bourn, KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General, was further
examined.

The Committee deliberated.

Mr Brian Glicksman, Treasury Officer of Accounts, was further
examined.

The Comptroller and Auditor General's Report on Policy Development:
Improving Air Quality (HC 232) was considered.

Mr Brian Bender, CB, Permanent Secretary, Mr Martin Williams,
Head of Technical Policy and Acting Head of the Air and Environmental
Quality Division, and Mr Rupert Furness, Head of National and
Local Air Quality Policy Branch, Department for Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs, were examined (HC 560-i ).

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[Adjourned until Monday 28 January at half
past Four o'clock.

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WEDNESDAY 1 MAY 2002

Members present:

Mr Edward Leigh in the Chair

Mr Ian Davidson

Jon Trickett

Mr David Rendel

Mr Alan Williams

Mr Gerry Steinberg

Sir John Bourn, KCB, Comptroller and Auditor General, was further
examined.

The Committee deliberated.

Mr Brian Glicksman, Treasury Officer of Accounts, was further
examined.

* * * * *

Draft Report (Policy Development: Improving Air Quality), proposed
by the Chairman, brought up and read.

Ordered, That the draft Report be read a second time, paragraph
by paragraph.

Paragraphs 1 to 3 read and agreed to.

Paragraph 4 postponed.

Paragraphs 5 to 33 read and agreed to.

Postponed paragraph 4 read and agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report, as amended, be the Thirty-fourth
Report of the Committee to the House.

Ordered, That the Chairman do make the Report to the House.

Ordered, That the provisions of Standing Order No. 134
(Select Committees (Reports)) be applied to the Report.